Saturnia pavonia male, The Small Emperor Moth - Color Butterfly Lithograph from 1895 book, "Europe’s Best-Known Butterflies" by F. Nemos

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One of many scans from an old butterfly book, “Europe’s Best-Known Butterflies” (Europas bekannteste Schmetterlinge. Beschreibung der wichtigsten Arten und Anleitung zur Kenntnis und zum Sammeln der Schmetterlinge und Raupen) (F. Nemos, Berlin, 1895). Each butterfly plate was scanned, the images separated, then cleaned up for the best possible presentation. See the entire collection on Alamy here at :

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Size: 5100px × 3900px
Location: Europe
Photo credit: © Antiquarian Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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